Another one bites the dust in Saudi Arabia. From AP, with thanks to Skeet Street.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Security forces killed the al-Qaida terrorist group's leader in Saudi Arabia during a fierce gun battle Sunday in the capital, Riyadh, an Interior Ministry official told this country's official news agency.Younis Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hayari, a Moroccan, was killed during a raid by security forces on an area where suspected militants were hiding, an Interior Ministry official was quoted by Saudi Press Agency as saying.
The clashes took place in the Rawdah district, an upscale neighborhood in eastern Riyadh, said Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Mansour al-Turki.
The unidentified official quoted by SPA said al-Hayari headed Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network in the kingdom, which has been ravaged by terrorist attacks during more than two years of violence.
"He (al-Hayari) was nominated by his peers, following the death of those preceding him, to be the head of sedition and corruption in the land," the official said in the SPA report.
Al-Hayari topped a list issued Tuesday of 36 most-wanted militants sought for participation in previous terror attacks in the kingdom dating back to 2003. On Wednesday, Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef warned about the possibility of more attacks.
Al-Hayari was believed to have had close ties to Abdul Karim al-Majati, an al-Qaida leader killed in April 2005.
The Interior Ministry official said security forces staged two simultaneous operations in eastern Riyadh and killed al-Hayari after a shoot-out, while arresting three other suspected militants who were not identified...
This or that leader is killed. A dozen people, two dozen there, are rounded up. so what? As long as the Saudi "royal" family (self-annointed monarchs since they defeated the Jabal Shammar in 1920, or soon thereafter) exists, and appropriates most of the nation's wealth, there will be those who will, as Muslims, find their resentment and outraged channeled into Islam as the total explanation of everything. And terrorism will continue in Saudi Arabia until the end of time. Let it. The only business the Infidel world has with Saudi Arabia is to attempt to have as little business with Saudi Arabia.
For the moment great sums of money flow in, and they will continue to flow in. But this does not mean that every effort cannot be made to diminish that flow of money (instead of aiming at a ludicrously irrelevant "energy independence" for the United States, which is both unachievable and would have no effect on Saudi Arabia or other Muslim oil states, for oil not sold to America will simply be sold to others, unless collective demand goes down).
Arms sales, at prices that reflect Saudi pricing on oil, of Western equipment and planes can continue, but only if that equipment os sabotaged so that, should it be used by the Saudis, we can -- from afar -- render it harmless. The beauty of this policy is that they will never know when this has happened, will never be quite sure that it has, or has not, occurred.
Keep them guessing, always and everywhere. Saudi Arabia needs to be "ridimensionato" -- that is to say, cut down to size. "Money can buy everything - except civilization." It is a barbarous place; its government is barbarous, its economy barbarous, the mental state of its inhabitants barbarous. A very few, who have spent a long time in the West, can appear to have acquired the habits of thought of Western man. And a very few of those may actually manage to do so. But only just.
From the AP news story..."The kingdom then launched a wave of retaliatory raids against the militants, and issued a list of 26 most wanted in December 2003. Security forces have killed or captured 23 of the 26 figures on that list".
Twenty 23 out of 26 is pretty good...there are only three terrorists left in Saudi Arabia now.
If they can only kill or capture the remaining three, Saudi Arabia will be terrorist free. Bet Bush will be happy with that news, big rewards, more hugs and kisses are planned...for a job well done...
As Saudi Arabia funds all aspects of the jihad: education, outreach, Da'wa, and violence, through patronage to their surrogate fighters, the jihadists and suicide bombers, oil wealth that provide will continue to fund the jihad against us. Ironically the Saudi royal family provides funds to the same movement that sometimes acts against them as a reminder to stay the straight and narrow.
The violence of terrorism will continue until Muslims decide that jihad is an unworthy principle. Don't hold your breath. It is more likely that violence will be met with greater and more awesome before they will ever contemplate such a change.
The only way to get rid of pests is to spray pesticide liberally (pun un?intended). Saudi arabia is all pest and no corn.
Rival gangs of religious maniacs at war with one another.
Better them than us.
The jackals biting each other.
Happy 4th of July!